Axel Simon wrote:
One of the nice things about Haskell is that definitions can appear in any order. That makes it possible to gather a group of logically related definitions together, within a module. With your proposal, exported definitions and non-exported ones would have to be separated.
... what about a Jave/C++ like approach
This has been suggested by some, and John Hughes did in fact support this later in his email:
Perhaps, given that Haddock is available, a public modifier makes more sense than an explicit export list-
and I'd like to underline that this modifier should be attached to a declaration individually (as in Java), and *not* start a region (similar to C++)
public:
main = ....
private:
helper1 = ... helper2 = ...
public:
because this would introduce order dependencies again: you'd have to search up the source code file to find out whether a declaration is private or not, and you'd have to be careful when moving around code. Respectfully submitted, -- -- Johannes Waldmann -- Tel/Fax (0341) 3076 6479/80 -- ---- http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/ -------